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Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07

When the Omaha charter was side.
tracked by John M. Thurston and Char
ley Green into the judiciary committee,
the managers of the Union Pacific and
B. & NJ. roads at Omaha discaimed any
intention to tamper with the charter be-
yond amending the railroad taxation
clause. They assured our business men
upon honor" tnat the charter would be
reported back promptly almost as it
came from the Omaha charter commit
tee. Have the railway managers
made good their promises Have
they kept faith with the COM
mittce of leading citizens who went
down to Lincoln IN their interest to har-
m onize matters by compromise? Have
they kept faith with the delegation which
made concessions to them upon pledges
by Judge Savage and Mr.. Henry Yates
that the piratical warfare waged by the
railroad lobby should ccaseY Under
what prctext can the shameless course
pursued by the infamous lobby that oper
atcs upon the legislature. under the per-
sonal direction of Thurston and Green,
be justiied' Mr.. Galloway and Mr..
Holdregc may disclaim any personal
responsibility for the outrageous conduct
of their understrappers and employees at
Lincoln, but the citizens of Omaha will
not exoncrate them. They cannot plead
ignorance as an excuse, because the law
less operations of their subordinates have
been matters of discreditable notorety.
II is an established fact that men under
their control are cxerting q corrupting
and dcmoralizing Influence upon the leg
islature. The mercenary and lawless
horde draws Its sustenance from the rail
road treasury. These miscreant hire
lings are allowed to levy blackmail upon
and gather booty from parties interested
in promoting or defeating legislation.
This shameless pillage and jobbery as an
incidental source of profit to the railroad
lobby is tolerated and winked at by the
managers. 1t is almost an open secret
that the multation of the Omaha charter
has been corruptly contracted by parties
interested. We have every reason to be
| lieve that the Omaha attorneys of the two
| trunk lines are working under such a
| contract just as they operated on the last
Legislature under corrupt bargain with
sportingmen to defeat the anti-gamblng
bill. This is disgraceful state of facts
which effects all classes of citizens re-
| gardless of political creed.
In any other community such lawless
corporate interference with material in.
tcrests would be resented. How much
longer will Omaha submit? How much
longer will business men and property
owners look on tamely without asserting
their manhood through protest which
the railway magnates will respect and
heed? How much longer will the honest
and decent men in the legislature who
arc in the majority allow the wreckers Of
men and despoilers of the people to tam
per with law.making?
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07
dered the discharge of the prisoner. This
makes the punishment tit the crimS

dered the discharge of the prisoner. This
makes the punishment fit the crime.
FORTY ROD VS. LIGHTNING.
The liquor sellers boycott of the Rapid
City Electric Light company has col.
lapsed, and many of the douscd glms
again shine. The liquor men shrank
from the conflict they had invited. One
of the expatriatcd Sioux City saloon men
who had just opened a place at Rapid
City, took the electric light IN the face of
the boycott. When demonstrated with
by his spirituous compatriots he is re-
ported as saying: For Gods sake, don't
say anything about fighting the prohibi-
tionists III take the electric light and
anything clso for peace. I've had
enough lighting prohibltionists. "
OLD TIMERS VS. NEWCOMERS.
The smeler project at Rapid City is in
state of syncopc between the contend.
ing factions of "Old.Tmers' and New.
Comers.' This is not the only enter
prise, that is thus "sat on. The country
could well export choice lot of piggish
old timers and toofrcsh newcomers.
While tho smelter sleeps one or two
train-loads Il day of ore for reduction arc
passing through Rapid City to Omaha,
and other millions of tons of low grade
ore that will not bear transportation
charges are lying on the dumps or un-
covered in the mines-the measure of
mems capacity to be blinded to their own
interests by na.rowness and passion.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07

II is now remembered that Mr..
Randall was very explicit in stating his
want of confidence in the integrity of
military and naval boards, and tins feel
ing was not removed by the fact that in
carrying out the then proposed measure
the board would be appointed by, and its
decisions and conduct be subject to the
direction of, a democratic administration.
1t seems evident that the views of Mr..
Randall prevailed with the democratic
members of the conference committee,
while the republican confcrees were en-
tircly willing to follow the line of prece-
dent and leave the matter in the hands of
the administration. The difference re-
garding guns was therefore, perhaps,
little more than pretext on the part of
the democratic members of the confer
ence committee, who thereby escaped an
explicit declaration of want of confidence
in the administration.
If such were the fact, the country will
have no difficulty in locating the reSpon-
sibility for the failure of the fortiiication
bill, and again Mr.. Randall appears in
the foreground as the arch h-obstructionist.
But there IS really very little satisfaction
in this, although it seemed to be re-
garded with great anxiety by both
parties in congress, when one reflects
upon the vast interests that are left prac-
tically unguardcd, if not indeed i'm
porIled, for another two years Protec-
ton for exposed property valued at more
than thousand million dollars is what
the country asked and expected, and
whether the responsibility for failure be
with the republicans or democrats, the
insecurity and the danger remain the
same. The unfortunate fact Is that the
country is left in a helpless condition, SO
far as it's sea and lake coasts are con-
cerned, and 1T is fact which every citi.
zen who comprehends the situation must
rpprpt
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07
Presidential Vetoes.

Ninety-eight years of congressional
life under the constitution of the United
States have expired. Forty-nine con-
crosses completed the period. If
Cleveland lives two years longer he
will complete IS president the cen
tury that will have elapsed since the
first president was inaugurated. Nothing
so completely marks the change of
theory respecting the power of the presi-
dent as coordinate factor in legislation
as the abuse of the veto prerogative since
Jackson's time. Washington in eight
years used his veto but twice. John
Adams in four and Jefferson in eight
years not once. Madison in eight years
sent in three yetoes, Monroe in his two
terms sent IN only one and j. Q. Adams
in four years not one. Thus under the
first six presidents, completing forty
years of our constitutional life and ending
with the younger Adams, the presidential
veto power was exercised but six times,
if we except some private bills not in
volving any party dispute or disagree
ment, which were sent back for necessary
correction.
With Jackson, the canonized saint of
the democratic party, began the abuse of
the veto power. He it was who first
asserted the right to dictate to congress
by his veto what its legislation should not
be, and this not in matters involv-
ing great constitutional questions
but merely party differences. He
opposed congress in eight years with
eleven vetoes, seven of them being of the
kind first used by him and then first desig-
mated as ''pocket vetoes." Webster said
in regard to these that there was not u
single instance, prior to Jackson, in
which president omitted to sign bill
and yet did not return it to congress with
his objections" There had been in =
stances III which a president, unwilling
to approve and yet not prepared to veto
q measure, suffered it to become law by
lapse of the ten days, during tie session
of congress. but Jackson was the first
president who commonly resorted to the
veto as an assertion that the executive
discretion was paramount to congress
sional discretion.
The custom rapidly grew with the
democrats, so that in the forty years,
beginning with jackson and ending with
johnson, there were over fifty vetoes.
Tyler had nine, Polk three, Taylor and
Fillmore none, Pierce ten, Buchanan
four, Lincoln one direct and one inadver-
family by expiration OF congress. Johnl
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07
Governor Thaycr's Assailants.


The assaults made on Governor Thayer
because he has seen tit to approve the
bill extending the lease of the peniten-
tiary contractor are uncalled for and
malicious. They are inspired by no hon
orable motive IN the interest of the pub
lie. On the contrary, their sole aim is a
cheap bid for sym pathy from the work
ingmen who are opposed to convict
labor. The course of the papers that
now profess to be so indignant about the
governors action is. if anything, more
hypocritical than their pretended love
for the laborlng man.
We never have approved, and do not
now endorse, the bill extending the
Mosher lease. 1t is in many respects OBJ
jectionable, from the standpoint taken by
the BEE for many years. But Governo
Thayer could hardly be expected
to veto bill which passed
both houses of the legislature
by more than two-thlrds vote. The
only complaint which Omaha working
men have laid at his door is for the al
legged undue haste in appending his sig
nature to the bill. On this point we have
no means of reaching correct verdict.
because only one version has been pre-
sented.
One thing is sclf.evident. The papers
which are SO loud and bitter about Gov
crnor Thayer, after he had made the bill
law, were not very loud in opposition
while the bill was pending before the leg
iSlature,
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07

Mr.. CADET TAYLoR's mission to Lin.
coin last week was purely of business
character. In laboring so earnestly with
members to retain the old board OF pub.
lie works, with Its well-known loose
methods, he was merely supplementing
the efforts of Hugh Murphy and the con.
tractors ring. Mr. Taylor himself would
scarcely exhibit such activity about that
provision of the charter had not some
body made it an object. AS far as we
can learn, Mr.. Taylor has no conception
of the wants of Omaha in the matter of
charter reform, and he has no practical
knowledge of the supervision of public
works and public improvements IN any
city of 100000 population. His lnterfer-
ence with the work of the Omaha charter
committee, and his efforts to have the
Douglas delegation overruled, can only
be construed IN the one way. There is
evidently darkey in that woodpile.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07
A SeriOvNs lSlunder.

The failure Of congress to pass the for
tification bill is deplorable blunder.
Not only docs it cut off all provision for
new or improved works, but also the
means for keeping IN proper repair exist
ing Notifications.
The serious fact that our unprotected
sea and lake coasts must remain in their
present defenscless condition for two
years longer is not all; the few and mad
equate defensive works existing must
lose materially IN effectiveness for the
reason that there is no appropriation for
maintaining them at even the present
poor standard. We have simply in this
matter gone from bad to worse, with the
certainty that in restoring what will be
lost before congress can make the neces-
sary appropriation, the cost to the people
will be considerably greater than would
have been the case had the last congress
made the usual allowance for coast de-
fenses.
In presenting the reports of the
conference disagreement in the two
branches of congress, the con-
ferces of each endeavored to lay
the responsibility of failure upon the
other. The chief cause of disagreement
was stated to have been on the question
of steel or cast.iron guns, the senate con-
forces insisting upon the former and
those of the house upon the latter. By
order of both houses the reports will be
printed SO that the country may be en-
ablcd 20 judge where the responsibility
for failure does rest. There is reason to
believe, however, that the difference of
opinion regarding the material 10 be used
in guns was not the sole cause of dsa-
grecment. When this matter was first
brought forward in the house Mr.. Ran
dali expressed strong opposition to com.
mitting the business of constructing the
new fofsilications provided for in the bill
to board wholly constituted of army
and navy officers, and in this as in most
other matters coming largely under his
direction, he seems to have carried a
great deal of democratic sentiment in
the house with him. At all events there
is very good authority for the statement
that the democratic members of the con-
ference committee insisted that the pro-
posed Notifications should be erected
under the supervision of board,
portion OF whom should be
civilians appointed BY congress.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07

AN elevated railroad in Omaha is the
latest proposed enterprise. 1t can be
built for $65, 200 mile. 1t is quite prob
able that the scheme will take definite
shape in few weeks, and in that event
the city council will be asked to grant
the right of way on certain streets upon
condition that at least two miles be built
within a certain time. 1t is quick transit
that busy people want IN this busy age,
and the elevated railway IS the coming
method of passenger transportation in
all progressive cities. Besides elevated
railways tend to centralize business, and
that ls what makes busy city.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska JlOttings.

NeDfaShA oottIuRS.
The Ewing Item has been sold to A.
N. Bohn. nm
The Baptists have organized church
at Chadron. -
The Bloomington Justice has been sold
to j. s. Goodwin. ITO
r,s wsspinS s 9ss wstsr s.ssss has caught on to the
Falrmont has voted aid to the Kansas
City e. Omaha road.
Falls City is reaching out for water
works and grist mill.
Falls City has declared for suburban
train service to Omaha.
Logan memorial services will be held
IN Fremont this evening.
O'Neill has contracted for an artesian
well-''no flow. no pay"
Nine horses and stable were crema-
ted in Hastings last week.
The belligerent O'Neill editors are now
singing ink at forty PAGES.
The Union Pacific has promised Beat
rice round house and depot.
Holdredgc is banking on population
OF 10000 by the spring OF 1899.
The DAILY Union, published by j.. G.
Kurch, at Wymore and Blue Springs. il
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07
An Embezzler Captured.

Detective Valentine, of the Union Pa
ciic, returned Saturday from the Mexl-
can border, where he succeeded in cap
turing defaulting agent of the Union
Pacific. The agent was j. Conn, who
skipped out from London Junction,
Colo, in December, taking about $500 of
the company's money. Mr.. Valentine
was put on The case February |, and
arrested him on February IL. just as he
was starting to cross the Mexican border.
He was taken to London Junction, where
he waived examination and was boun d
over to the district court on the charge of
embezzlemeut. ~
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07

BECAUSE of one week OF beautiful
weather all the long haired weather
cranks are predicting storms OF unusual
violence. The sublimely impudent. pre-
varicating prognos ticator, MIR. Foster, of
Iowa, has actually frightened himself by
reading his own prophecies. 1t would be
with uncertain accuracy that Mr.. Foster
would predict the date that the moon will
fill. All the difference between Eli Per.
kins and weather prophet Is that Eli
admits that he is q liar.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07

son had twenty-one direct and two
pocket votocs. At the end of the first
session of the Forty ninth congress
Cleveland had far surpassed johnson in
the number of his vetoes, pocket and di-
rect, and at the close of that congress his
record foots up 132. vctoes. Thus in two
years he has directly and indirectly set
up his personal discretion and judgment
against the action of the peoples repre-.
sentativcs, thereby defeating their will.
IN twcnty.one more instances than all his
predecessors combncd did during ninety
six years.
In all ClcvelAnd's vctoes there has
scarcely been thasemblancc of consti.
tutional question involved. They have
been purely and solely assumptions of a
judgment and discretion superior to that
of a congress sent directly from the people
and the states to enact laws for the pub
lie welfare. Whether it were the erec
ton of public building for tho use of
the government and the convenience of
the people who support the government;
increasing the facilities of interior cities
for direct importation; the relief of set.
tiers on the public lands from the con-
sequences of the governments own acts
or errors; the issue of II few thousand
dollars worth of seed to stricken COM
munity in Texas, or pensions to descrv-
ing soldiers, their widows, orphans or
dependent parents, it was all the same.
He claimed to know better what was the
right and duty of the government than
80 out of 76 senators and ZIG out of 1876
representatives, since it would take one
override his veto.
The democratic party has always de-
clared its opposition to the encroach.
ments of executive power. 1t had its
origin in hostility to the overshadowing
influence of the presidential Office. de-
claring that it was "aping royalty in its
manners and copying monarchy in
its prerogatives," yet the democratic
presidents from Jackson down have been
notorious for their arbitrary use of the
veto, or "one.man power,' and Cleve-
land, the latest, surpasscs all the rest.
There is another noted example of demo-
cratic presidential assumption of auto
| cratic power. The constitution says that
congress shall have the power to declare
war, yet James X. Polk alone actually
began war with Mexico. He ordered
our troops into territory claimed and
occupied by Mexico, and when they were
attacked, as he expected them to be, he
forthwith declared by proclamation that
war existed by act of Mexico" That
is the kind of party, those are the kind Of
presidents who prate so loudly and in.
cessantly about submission to the peo.
pies will
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07

KING HUMBERT can continue to knight
Americans. But he should be careful
about bestowing his rare titles upon Mis-
sourians. In this land of Doodle alder
mon and pious politicians to be colonel
is greater than to be king.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07

If the oil inspection bill which passed
the lower house of the Legislature last
week is defective in any essential partic
ular it should by ali means be amended.
Petroleum inspection has however be-
come necessity. The expense which in
spectlor would entail on consumers is too
trifling to be taken into consideration.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07

The most impressive wooden Indian
ever gracing the front of cigar store,
would have been moved to tears at the
eloquence of the forty members who
wrung their hands and made piteous ap-
peals for the re-appointment of page in
the lower house. Such devotion to the
youth of America is we'll worthy of emu
Iotiop
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07

ONE of the disadvantages of Iowa's pro-
hibition was portrayed in our dispatches
yesterday. In taking drink of water a
lady swallowed lizzard. Coppcr-dis-
titled snakes are some times found in
whisky. but amphbious reptiles, such as
the lady swallowed, take to water alone.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07

Tomorrow, James Russell Lowell be-
gins in the Lowell Institute course at Bos-
ton, a series of six lectures on the old
English dramatists. A half-dozen petit
tions have gone up from st. LOUIS, I'm.
ploring Mr.. Lowell to devote one even
ing to the Chicago river and the beauti.
full In pork
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07

In denying pardon asked for forger
IN the w estern penitentary of Pennsyl-
vania, President CleSeland said the crime
of forgery was so hateful and so danger
GUS he could not bring his mind to grant
ing pardon in such 2 case. There is
little logic occasionally in the utterances
of our president.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07

Now that the legislature has relieved
Nebraskas perpetual claim agent, Pat o.
Hawes, we hope Governor Thayer will
relieve all future legislatures by cancell.
ing the Hawes agency. With three men,
bers of congress and two senators to rep
resent her interests at the national capt.
tai Nebraska can dispense with the SER
vices of clam brokers.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07

THE five commissioners required under
the interstate commerce law will be ap-
pointed within the next ten days. The
only selection made so fur is ex-Congress-
man Morrison. There is consider able
speculation as to tho remaining four
names.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07

IT is predicted by knowing ores. that
western Nebraska will this year receive
a larger immigration than any one year
has ever before witnessed. Already tho
land agents are busy, and the spring
rush, it is predicted. will be really won
Eopf,,1
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07

THAT man Virgins, who once laid
claim to being prophet. cautions people
to look out for storm the last of this
month. Mr.. Wiggins is bore and his
predictions arc chestnuts.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07

A GRIM rumor has gained credence to
the effect that Sister Rose will be married
soon. That poetry she has been writing
of late is now accounted for. The poetic
muse and CUPID are on the best of terms
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07

Col. JAMES expresses it as his desire
that the capital of Missouri should not be
removed from Jefferson City. In respect
to this wish of the titled statesman, the
legislature will continue to meet at the
old otnnA
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07

In THE Fiftieth congress the senate will
stand 80 to 81 in favor of the republi
cans. However, this places the power IN
the sometimes doubtful and most always
eccentric Mr.. Riddleberger, of Virginia.
to make tie any time he should feel so
Inclined
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07

TIE legislature should recognize the
Importance of law which will rid the
state of bogus insurance companies and
also prohibit wildcat concerns of other
states from operating in Nebraska. A
bill to accomplish this has been intro
duced. viii it be passed?
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07

AN effort is being made to change the
name of tho Wabash road. AS Mr..
Shakespeare would have said, that which
we call railroad, by any other name
would exact the same ruinous tolls.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07

A BRIEF in the Chicago anarchist case
fills over 500 pages. 1t is thought that
rather than be tortured with such q
lengthy document tho judge will act as
Spies proxy and be hanged.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07

Mr.. I. DoNNELLY may finally be able
to establish his claim that Bacon wrote
Mr.. Shakespeare's plays, but we have
grave doubts about him proving that Col.
Colby wrote the speeches for MIR. Cicero.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07

THE house adjourned Saturday noon.
1t convenes Tuesday at 10 O. clock. Un-
less there is more speed at Lincoln that
railroad lobby will drink itself to death.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07

THE Legislative train" between Omaha
and Lincoln has been discontinued. Can
it be possible that the lobby has been
called imp
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07

Our of all the strife, it really looks as
though Omaha might get at least one
cable railway.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07
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